EGYPT, AND SYRIA. 367 
The whole face of the city has been changed, being en- 
larged and adorned with the improvements of the celebrated 
Achmet Pafha, who has built an elegant mofque and baths, two 
markets, a palace, and refervoirs for water. There are three 
Khans, or places for receiving goods, anfwering the purpofe at 
once of a warehoufe and inn. There are alfo five or fix 
mofques, a fmall eftablifhment of the Francifcans, and a Greek 
and Armenian church. In one of the Khans the Europeans 
lodge, 
A mean tomb has been erected by the Pafha, to the memory 
of the celebrated Shech Daher, clofe to the fea, and at a little 
diftance from the northern extremity of the wall. 
Acre ftands on a promontory, near a fmall gulph, and has no 
haven. VefTels anchor in favourable weather near the fhore, but 
the European fliips anchor oppofite Haifa, a fmall place at the 
foot of Mount Carmel, where the water is generally fmooth. 
The trade of Acre is pretty confiderable ; the Europeans bring 
broad cloth, lead, tin, and a variety of other articles, and ex- 
port cotton in return. From Egypt there are large imports of 
rice. The foil of Egypt is not very proper for cotton, which 
is a ftaple commodity of Syria. 
The long reign of Achmet Pafha el ye%%ar^^ accompanied with 
immenfe influence and great wealth, might naturally lead to 
conceive, that, blending his interefls with thofe of his fubje£ts> 
he would have exerted his authority in promoting their happi- 
* The butcher. 
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